The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M is... the use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by worki...ng after marriage, because her employment indicated that he was a poor providerLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Bert McAnny: Now for goodness sake, Green, don't get me wrong. Why, some of my best friends ...Anne: I know, dear. And some ...of your other best friends are Methodists, but you never bother to say it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I sit at my deskeach night with no place to go,...opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,the whole U.S.,its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »